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In New Video Artist Raises Awareness of Guantanamo Detainee Treatment
Jul 08, 2013
By Cody Ray Shafer
In a new video hosted by The Guardian, musician/actor Mos Def, aka Yasiin Bey, is force fed through a feeding tube. The procedure is standard operating procedure for Guantanamo Bay detainees currently on hunger strike. In the video, a tube is shown being lubricated and then forced into Bey’s nose before he protests and begs for the process to stop. He refuses a second tube, and then the video cuts to Bey describing the painful experience. More
Festival Also Features Common, GZA, Erykah Badu, Curren$y, Freddie Gibbs, Big K.R.I.T., and more.
Jul 27, 2011
By Kyle Lemmon
Guerilla Union‘s 11th iteration of the rap festival series Rock the Bells announced its stellar 2011 lineup, and it’s bursting with classic rappers performing seminal albums in their entireties. More
Reviews
Jul 11, 2009
By Evan Rytlewski
To say expectations were low for Mos Def’s fourth album is being far too generous. But by the shameful standards Mos Def set for himself, any album with some semblance of effort was bound to be heralded as a return to form, and The Ecstatic puts forth that modicum of effort. More
